Panicked discussions of the climate crisis on this stressed planet are often bolstered by background debate on how fast the Earth’s population is growing, and questions of how many people the planet can support. To be sure, a sevenfold increase of the world population over two centuries has stressed the planet to its breaking point.
Compleletely false and totally misleading! It is the destructive mismanagement of our resources that is the source of habitat loss, environmental destruction and lack of ecological sustainability. NOT population growth.
We need to replace the current paradigm with one where the planning and management of our society is not under the control of greedy corporations and bought politicians supplying a self-interested and selfish mass of unthinking purchasers.
This will take a huge change in the ethic level of a large number of people.
Let’s start!